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'THE .COUNTRY Tlie Cork Advcrtizer of the 25th tilt) " • 1u this Paper we have commenced the triSl of Mne for a fflaspheinous and seditious ljhel.— It will be tound'inbur last page its length pro- hihits us from giving it entire in this post, but we - shellsemitinue it nritii it is concluded. SOme Tapers in Englinfl have. shrunk frnnt lishing it, uumutliAted, in consequence of the protaneneis which it contains ; hut We . thialt that no Mind, however weak, could be now Corrupted • by such base and revolting trash, the stupidity of which is as gross .as its malevolence.- - That such writings, .however, when • sedulously distributed among the lower orders have been productive of the very worst consequences, we need no other prool.than the behaviour of the 'persons in Court during their trials The indecent parodies Upon the most sacred things, when read by the Attor ney-General, ins:ead of exciting disgust and liorror, were received with peals of laughter : the - insolence of the prisoner, which exceeded any thing we ever remember in a Court of 'Justice, was greeted by the applause of the bystanders ; and the Attorney-Genend's speech was inter rupted by continual murmurs and expressions of contempt. This is in reality an awful eircum- • stance. We see the religion of the country ri *fielded, and its law authorities insulted with impunity ; and yet we find three London Juries (for hone laas been a third time ac quitted) pronouncing tipontheir oaths that the limn who has disseminated this poison, and gloried in it with such barefaced assurance, is norguilty. Ile shall never question the innocence of a man, \VIM . , when tried by the forms prescribed by the laws of the land, has been declared gniitless ; but with our opinion of the sanctity of an oath, and our decided conviction of the tmdignant and irreligious tendency of these composi- Sinus, we would not change places with those Jurors for all the gold that sedition has ever earned. But-their verdict is no affair 'of ours; between them and -their consciences be -it. We t `roll Con clude by observing that the s:i'rit mani fested in this business is very like that which dis played itself about the commencement of the French Revolution. The same contempt of re ligious establishments, the same defiance of ex . . isting laws, the same seditious affronts to high author Hes, the same assumption of • this be ing an age of reason, abuse regarding any of . the . institutions-of former times-; in short, all • the chara - Cteristies• of 1790 apPear in 1817. Our -rulers to look 'to this ; and. though the attack in the present instance seems to bear More, immediately on the Church than on the State,. it should not therefore be neglected. — With the Church the present • State - establishment stands or falls ; and •if the • existing' laws 4re not suffieierit to 'protect • these glorious 'monuments of the wiSliom'of out. • ancestors, others o'ught to be enacted. The next • • 'Session of certainly should hot pass • - wi.thont deciding whether all that we vene rate • shall be -left tindelended, to the abuse of every profane scribbler, whci hies the wickedness • - and insolence to attacli thetn.''' ' • ,FLINCRAL OF CUAI3LEi BURNEY, D. D. On Saturday list the remains of this profound scholar were deposited in his. !study-vault, St. Paid's, Deptford, of which parish he was Rector. The principal inhabitants of the place attended the funeral, and having met afterwards in .the Vestry room, agreed to erect in the church, at their 0:111 expellee, a monument to his memory. The loss of so eminent and useful a man cannot fail to be sincerely deplored, for, having created a noble income by his industry and Learning, he dis - bnrsed it With the most princely liberality, in giving largely to most of the public subscriptions, but chiefly in contributing to whatever tended to pro mote literature and science. Amongst a multitude of instances may be mentioned, that his veneration for Dr.' Bentley induced I to print a splendid edition of his letters, under the title of .Bentleii Episiolae, which he enriched by his own erudite annotations, and distributed every copy of the work grand' otisly. lie purchased the famous Townfry lick mer,for which MS. he paid 6.50 guineas, and refused - a thousand, that, it is said, were offered by the Uni versity of Oxford for the precious relic, so anxious Was he to, complete his Greek MSS. by an addi, tion which renders them almost invaluable ; in, 'deed his library is altogether one of the most mag nificent private collecti - ons in Europe. This now passes into the possession of his son, the Reverend CHARLES PARR BURNEY, of Greenwich, and we can:'ot help expressing a hope that he Will not al low it tti be dispersed.; or, rather, that lie will not suffer the rare things in it to be purchased for the purpose of enriching foreign libraries. Dr. Burney, is the second luminary, in that bright constellation of learning formed by Porson, Parr and himself, that has now disappeared from bur view. His family have all been conspicuous ; his father, the Historian of and friend of Johnson, was one of the most elegant writers of that age ; his brother, Captain Burney, of the Navy, who accompanied Captain Cook in his two last, lOng, enterprising, and perilous voyages, is one of the first-geographers_thftt country-pos sesses ; a fact w e lLsupported.l?,y his .vuluininotts and elaborate History of the,VoyAges o f Di sco . very ; and Mad. D'Arblav, equally dist ingnished herself by her well-known writings. Dr. Burney was a Fel,lpw of the Royal atntl An tiquarian Societies, Chaplain to 114 Majesty, Lec tor of Deptford, and of-.1 - 1(;oe, in Kent, andfalso Prebendary of Lincoln cl_if,td-ral. " ' The Tottenham conviet 51144.11'0 .the-, Derby Rioters on board, is stilhietaittetr at the Nor Several °ther per s ons sentepc . o:,t 4 .o - transporta tion are alxi;it 44 1 ptueeei[ y t . 1.0 wn , e ' vesse l to New South Wales, ' -;; We have receive(! nceol etsays a. Norfolk Paper), of the elopement tif ( e.loinl pairtrom the neighbourhood of Who s e iiititedtges amount 10,11,1 yea's, - the than b'eing 76, and' .kke' woman . DUTCH I.‘'TAIL. INTERsatiaon; Dec. 3.—The AUstiiart Ih varian Ambassadors are on the point of setting. out for Moscow. Since the cold set in, the Winter is uninterruptedly severe. The large "linantitie - s a snow that have fallen facilitate theconisnutitca-f tions with the interior of the Empite. PETERSi3UtIGII, Dee. 10.—It is said that proposal has been made to the GOvernment, in - order lei rut a ' fit4Al stop to th e i n i no u s a nd d e ., testab:c cinitrahand trade, without the use of violent measures, which are, besiiles, al ways insufficient to open Negociations on the basis of the lloly Alliance, of whi-eh the result would he, " That every Power which takes a part in the Uloly Alliance should have to provide, that no goods should be conveyed front or through its territories to those of another State to which. those goods are contraband." As cheating, cun ning, and covetousness, the chief tootives of the smugglers, on the one hand, and, an the other, the scandalous inclination pf the consumers to extravagance, are directly opposite to the spirit of Christianity. Commercial Treaties concluded on this principle would certainly be the only means conformable to ibis spirit. The lawful intercourse of the different Nations of the earth would be se cured by them. A solemn Funeral Service has been performed is the English Church here, on account of the death of the Princess Charlotte. HAGUE, DEC. 28.—Yesterday evening his Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, for the first time spice his return to thiS place, honoured the theatre with his presence ; it was the first time he sat in the magnificent ornamented box fitted up for hint, next to that of their Majesties. The moment his Royal Highness entered, accompanied by six Aid de-Camps, in his General's uniform, and wearing several Ordera„ the whole of the numerous audi ence rose, and weleoMed him with long-continued acclamations, clapping of hands, amt cries of " Long live the Prince !" His Royal Highness scented much affected by these testimonies trt at tachment to his person. VIENNA, Dec. 13.--The Prussian Councillor ot State, Von Jordan, who is expected this evening, will probably make a long stay here, as his mis sion is said to embrace• very important Objects. Among other things it is stated that measures will be concerted between our Court and that of Prns sia, .to check the abuses and licentiousness of the Press, which threatened Germany with incalcul able evils, 'unless wise and energetic measures are speedily adopted. In order to secure to the na-' lions of Germany the enjoyment of a reasonable Liberty of the Press, and in general a high degree of civil and political freedom, it is necessary, be fore all things, to oppose a powerful barrier to.the licence of the press and lawless insubordination which begins to spew itself in so many places. By the apostles of liberty who now preach every where trout the house tops, Germany can only be plunged either into the most dreadful anarchy, or the most fi'ightfol despotism, either of which would . stifle for many yearS the seeds of improve ment in our country. lIAMRORGH, DEC. 25.-'---The Elbe is already full of floating ice; some 'vessels which attempted to get up the Elbe have been obliged to put back to Cuxhaven ; the navigation of small craft on the Elbe is not entirely Stopped. FROM THE FRENCH FRONTIER., DEC. 26.—1 t is thought the Duke of Wellington make some considerable stay at Paris. Numerous couriers continue to arrive at the head-quarters, where it is thought that important negociations :ire - tarrying on between the English and Freud) GoVerathents. The best underst.uling continues to preva il between the COmManders of the (litre rout corps of the Allied Army and the FretichMa gisttates, and the strictest discipline is main tained. FLANDERS MAIL. VIENNA, Dac. 20.-,-The Advertiser of Milan, of the 6th, announces that the Villa of Este, which belongs to her Royal Highness the Prin cess of Wales, upon the -Lake of Como, is now to be sold with all its dependencies. The greater part of the suite of his Imperial Highness, the Arch duke Rainer, who is appointed Viceroy of 'Lom bardy, basalteady set out to travel by short stages to 111ilan. It is said that this Prince, as soon as he arrives in Italy, will espouse his cousin, the Archduchess Maria Louisa . of Tuscany. Count Lauraw, the . Governor •of Lombardy, who. arrived on the 15th, has had a long confer ence with the Emperor. It is remarked that the Governors of the Kingdom Of Bohemia, Italy, Gallicia, and Illyria, are all at the saute time in this city, whence' it is inferred that sonic changes arc intended in the civil administration of those provinces. A new system tor' the general arming in time of war is also spoken.of. BaussELS, DEC. 30,-•--Monsieur Matibretfil has :ip;)caled to the . Court of Ca'ssatirin - against the Decree made in this cause by the Royal court of Donau. . The firs!: Chamber, iu one of its last Sit tings, has confirmed three Projets Of :Lawrstilt.up fr , ini the second Chamber, ifiz'.---4114 concerning the provisional continuation of the'rising . ot the Revenues of the State after the Ist of January, ISlS—That i chit is'e to the free trade in Tea—and that on the Tax upon Inheritances. HANovF.n, DEC. 19.—The opening of the. G eneral Assembly of the States of the Kingdom took place yesterday, under the direction of Mr. 111. "far, President of the Regency. AWFUL VISITATIONS.—Friday last being the animal meeting of - the Keelmen's Society ol'New castle, they diued together a,t the housent Mr. Mit cl.telson, publican, Situdgate. On sitting down to Andrew lligrppon, from the Felling short;, desired gracejnight be said, when, awful to relate, he laid his liead on the toPle and imme diately .expired. 7 —An awful instance of sudden death occurred yesterday, in the church at Cites ter-le-street : an elderly %roman,. named Mary Carr, tvhilst attending at the'idt.ai.table, to receive a part of the money usually distributed, there Oa, New-Year's day tell down ) and iusiadily expired. (Durham Advertizer.) FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT OP THE BRISTOL PRUDENT FRIEND SOCIETY. The almost unexampled disfres:.% Of the labour ing cla&ses, (hiring the early part of the present year, has greatly increased the demands on the funds of this Institution. The number of Men dicants applying fo; relief has often been trout 20 to 501 u a 'day. The relief afforded to each indi vidual .wastherefore necessarily small, and would have been . almost unavailing, but for the Soup Shops.established by this Society. The benefits arising froth the Soup Shops, howevtr, were by nfr'itienlll confined to strangers, 'many hundreds off he inhabitants of this city were, in .a consi derable degree,. supported from them for several weeks, by private Nenevolence Or patine subscrip-. [ion, and but for the timely assistance they afford ed, there - can be little doubt that many mild(' have perished from want of . fool. It would be in op position to the principles of this Society to foster habits of dependence in the Poor, by continuing assistance of this kind, in times of comparative plenty and prosperity. By the bounty ot Pro vidence the usual food of the labouring classes is now at a moderate price, and many of them, Iron' the wages Of reviving trade, are able to procure it for themselves ; one Soup Shop only is there fore continued. The balance against the Society would have been large, from the encreaied eitpen diture this year, bad it not been met by libe ral donations from individuals, and a legacy of 50/. tree from all deductions, trout the late Rev. 3oliti Bull. The sum expended in printing, advertizing,&c. may at first sight be considered as unnecessarily large ; but the primary object of this Institution was to tevire a spirit of independence among the Poor ; and in diffusing infortuatioo on this sub ject, both among the higher and lower orders of .society, the aid of the press is indispensable; and your Committee feel a strung conviction that this item of your expenditure has not been thrown away. The sum which has been granted in Loans since December 1816, is 9171. 10s. making the sum of 5026/.los. since the commencement of the under taking in 1812. The state of the Saving's Bank is in the highest degree satisfactory. There are between 8a id 900 accounts open with different depositors, and the sum received exceeds 20,0001. of which 13,000/. have been deposited since the last annual meet ing. Your Committee have to congratttlate you likewise on the recognition of the utility of Sav ings' Banks by the Legislature. Some Bills, which hail been introduced into the 1-louse of Commons, previously to the framing of the pre sent Act, contained a clause, the tendency of which was to destroy the small remains of shame still,attached by some .of the poOr, to receiving parish-pay ; and being therefore utterly subvci-- sive of the very end for which Savings' Banks were estabiished, your Committee thought - it their duty to oppose it, hy"PetitiOns to both 'louses of Parliament. Another clause in the original Bills appeared also to be likely to lessen the goodetfects of these lustitntions the clause which prescribed that the stock of Savitigs' Banks should be in vested in Exchequer BillQ, or the Public Fonds only. Many practical inconveniencies:resulted from the first kind of secarity, among which was the fluctuation in their value. In this respect, however, they were infinitely preferable to the Public Funds ; and yourCommittec think they are justified in supposing, that if from the continu ance of the war, or any other calamity, the Funds had fallen 10 per cent. in the last two or three years, instead of rising as they have done, those Banks which have made their Depositors Stock holders for the amount of their •deposits, would h ave g iven a blow to the system of Savings' Banks which it would never have recovered : it is true, tinder present circumstances, the Depositor; have been gainers, but it cannot be the wish of any re flecting man to encourage a propensity so nearly allied to gaming or speculation, whichsuch a spe cies of gain would too probably create. T he al -1 teration of this clause was likewi se one o bj ec t o f I their Petitions. . . The opinions expressed by your Committee ap peared to coincide with those of the majority of both I - louses : and the Saving's Bank of this So ciety is now placed under the protection of a most able, clear, and concise Act of Parliament. A fund has beets crea►ed purposely for Savings' Banks, which is subject to no fluctuation : and Managers and Directors are allowed either to•in vest the money in it, or in other Public Securities, or in Land. When your Committee call to your recollection, that six years have not elapsed siuce the idea ot a Bank for the Savings of the Poor was suggested in a small pamphlet, which was the first step to wards the formation of this Society, you mitst feel the highest gratification in having been the original promoters ot a plan, which has met with' almost unprecedented approbation, is in rapid . progress towards universal adoption, and coM bined with the general education of the Poor, : your Committee are persuaded, will form a new ra in the history of the moral character of the British People. The Reports of a Society which has for its oh iret,' not merely the of the evils raising. from poverty, but the removal of one of the twist fruitful sources of poverty itself, should not be too strictly confined to a review of its own operations, but should advert to the progress of th , Jse smut(' principles and enlightened . views, on the general diffusion of which, the only rational hope of suc cess in such an undertaking twist be founded. The ruinous effects'of the system of a compul sory maintenance of the Poor, to which your Committee. have so fregitently .ca ll e d y our atten tion, !have been demonstrated, by he elperience - ot the last two or three years, with a elearne:o, which foci:es convictinn on the minds of iheinot sceptical. The sums raised by 'assessnant, and expended npon the Poor, have increased e.:% - “kally from the. yor 1770• in which it was 1,556.8041' to 5,072,0281.. in year ISIS, and in the year ,1816- it is - supposettto tall little'short of 0,C00,0001 In the Report , nf a Select Committ ce of the House of•CoMmons„ the result of a hborioes. in- Yestigatioli.ot.,Ore. Poor . Laws, their effect 'a.nd ten dency, it is stated, that "independently of the. pressUre any ten'iparary, ilr accide. rt;il eirL.: ,ll " statiee, and Making every allowance fot an .."'" creased population, the rise in the pric'e sinus, and• other necessaries of lite, ac r d t nit ~ l '" pliCal'ion Of part of these hoofs, I- ai:yarent both the number of parapets, and t , ti e nfrlttttrit '' t money levied by assessnreut, are progrrssiverV 1 "" creasing—while the situation of the Poor appe.'" nOt to have Deenin a corresponding degree Ins proved ; and the Select Committee is of opinion, that while the exiting 'oor Laws, and the syst" , '",. under ‘vhich they are antnioisteted, rent.tin changed, there does ndt exist any power of arreste tug the progress of this increase, , till it shall louger be found ro augment the s tow! . raised by . assessment " This alarn,Ltg state (!t things is nearer at hand than might - have bee' . !' preriom,ly to the Report of- the Select Committee. lo a Petit iou nom the parish of Wombwell, in Shropshire, it is stated, " That sirs annual value of Land, Mines, and 'llottsei in this parish, is not sufficient to mainoin the nomerous and increasing Poor, even if the same were to he set free of rent ; and that these eirctonstances will inevitably compel the occupiers of Lands and Mines to relinquish them, and the Poor will be without relief, or any known mode of obtaining it." The Select Committee add, that front " the Petitions before them, this is oely one of mauy parishes fast approaching to this state." Such is the effect of the Poor Laws on Property; and the , elects produced by them nu the Punt' theinse/reS are thus forcibly stated by the Select Committee " A compulsory contribution for• the indigent from the funds accumulated from the labour and industry of others, could nw fail, in p roc ess of time, with the increase of population, which it iS calculated to foster, to produce the unfortunate effect of abating those exertions on the part of the labouring classes, on which, according, to lire nature of things, the happiness and welfare 0t mankind has-beerrmade to rest. By diminishing, this it atiiral impulse by which • men are instigated to industry and good conduct--by superseding flit necessity of providing, in the season or health and vigour, for the wants-of sickness and ohtege, and making poverty and !nisei y the conditions oo which relief is to be obtain(d, your Committe e ' cannot but fear, front a reference to the iticrctoea numbers of the Poor, and. Irmo the increased and increasing amount of the ruins raised for their re lief, that this system is perpetually euci - ,uragin; and increasing the ammo', of misery it was de signed to alleviate ; cleating, at the sante time, a n milimited demand on funds which ,it cannot aug `mem : and as every system of compulsOry enact. , ments must be divested of (Ir.: character of belle"- valence, so it is without its beneficial effects'; as it proceed, front no impulse of charity, it creates no feelings of gratitude, and, not unfrequeutly* engenders dispositious calculated to ser:rate rather than unite the interests of the hiiher and lo , ver orders of the 'community. The re s ult of the system appears to have been highly prejudicial to the moral habits and cotisegnritt happiness of a great body of the people, , Aho have been reduced to the thgredation of dependence upon parochial e s t i i i i , ) , p ri ( t ) i t ti .t t the trots i l i t i e thi r s e t s r t i 4f 3 e t:: t e sse e s t:n i t: a l s ot i t:i e t e y n , pressed by a vVeight of enottitutoi,;,,."_,• rut there will always he a class of persons who fliol it difficult, with their totnost letbOttr acid CACI"( iot; tis maintain their families, atter having contributed their quota to the assesSmeot. Such is the culti-• vator of a small farm; of whom . it has been said forcibly and truly, that.he rises early, and it is late before lie can retire to rest ; lie works hare, a (t s ia c t i l gt a i d t r ai c t ; .a y el r . y es 1 yet, i roust first lie ,4 ' eo t t subsistence i ' , f; ) t a r i e . r : bl hi l) s i t t r . ) , be t it h t e e pretiltiti he would porchase.warmef clothing for his children, but the children of the prostitute must first be clothed." In short, in the: language of the Select Committee,. the effect 0 ' " those compulsory distributions is to pull (low° what is above, not to raise what is below; ~net: levelhey depress t t was originally i (; ) g ,, e t. t .s he t. t: , n t h Such ate the terrific consequences of an aPl' l " rently humane, but erroneous principle in lation. The system which oriiiinated in the. Act of the 43t1 of Lliz, it is evident, must h e =grada ally abandoned, or it will involve. all oraers o f Society in common ruin. The mode of doing, this is a qttestioll of acknowledged difficulty, and wile.' titer the remedies proposed by the Select Continittee be the best which could be the devised, or whe ther a more simple and efficacious plau has not already been proposed, your Committee will not presume to determine. hot when the jexistence of an evil is acknowledged, its Magnitude ascer tained, and its nature iinderstood, some of the greatest obstacles to its removal are already stir.- mounted. With the guidance Of the sound prin ciples which are recognized in the Report of the Select Committee, with the power which they possess of commanding information, and with that deep interest which the subject must excite, as involving the very existence of the empire, and the happiness of every individual of which it is ' .composed, there is good gto , and to hope that, though the disease has been neglected till it ha, b egt ,„ to p re y upon our vitals, it is riot beyond the power of an enlightened legislature to rem. wove. S MARRIED. 11t Mary-Te-bone, ..tLidifen, Esq. of Golden-square, to. Mary, youngest daughter of Ji,eim Hickman, Esq. of Et*st-• street, Laaibeth. After the ceremony, the haßity coup,l4.st. off to sp.nl the honeymoon in Hertfordshire. Wedne,day, the :list nit. William nix Lane,. Esq. sr.,' cond son of James Fox Lane, Esq. 'Of Branihain Park,. Yorkl iltirr, to Gil-ohne, youngest daughter of !the Hon. Jolla, Douglas, and grat»l-tlanglit e r of the Earl of Harewood. 1:IED. . Of a rapid decline, in the fourteenth year of her age, Eli- , satieth, the daughter of t Thorpe., Esq. L. L. I). as inia tile, beam - aid, and accomplished young lady. Lately, at tiontliampton, aged 7; years, Sir Richard Orklow, Bart. G. C. B. Admiral of the lied, and Lieutenant-GeAral of the Royal Nla rine Forces. New Year's Day, Mr. James. Fitch, of the fifth of Jarrie4, and George Yitch, Leadenhall-street, in, the 5(.5111 ye it age. At'Newliurgh, on the 19th ult. fraud a gradual decay 'of na ture, aunt wil.;ln nn /,filer: if (WO ` ] r. David II eiilfrsoeh„ aged. 7 , 4, and Salle his stMe, al..;e:(1 7i, after a lung and Iti.roia nious matrimonial union of 4. , y 6,1 s• LONDON: Prlotcd by ,T. B. CA RSTAIRS, of No. 4.9, Ureat Ormond-stita, Qoven : !:,o,oa'ru; and pu4lislird by W. SCRIPPS, of No. 7, S'%ont h Molton-streut, SUN ()lice, No. I 'S',t rand ; w Intro - kieuor o%* ; ;:41 , Js Letter,, Bcc. 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